1962 VFL NIGHT PREMIERSHIP

*Richmond's drought broken - the 1962 night title was the Tigers' first senior flag since winning the 1943 VFL Premiership and the 1953 Lightning Premiership.

*Curtain-raisers - played for the first time since 1957 and featured a round-robin competition between schoolboy teams from Altona, Clayton, Middle Park, Newport, South Melbourne Y.C.W., West Altona, Williamstown C.Y.M.S. - Newport won the inaugural Shell-South Melbourne FC Junior Night Premiership Shield.

*Fight the darkness - a series preview in the Round 18 edition of the Football Record notes: "The Football Record will be published for night matches and, to assist patrons, the list of players' names will be printed in larger type than usual."

*Peck fires - Hawthorn's John Peck kicked 7 goals against Collingwood in the second semi-final and was the leading goalkicker of the series with 12 goals from three matches.

ROUND 1

DATE

TEAMS

1/4

1/2

3/4

FINAL

MARGIN

VENUE

DAY/TIME

CROWD

Aug-31

North Melbourne (11)

2.3 (15)

4.4 (28)

6.5 (41)

9.11 (65)

33

Lake Oval, South Melbourne

Fri (8:00pm)

13,500

South Melbourne (12)

1.2 (8)

2.7 (19)

3.11 (29)

3.14 (32)

Sep-04

Richmond (8)

3.2 (20)

4.4 (28)

9.7 (61)

12.9 (81)

17

Lake Oval, South Melbourne

Tue (8:00pm)

11,600

Fitzroy (10)

3.1 (19)

6.3 (39)

7.4 (46)

9.10 (64)

Sep-07

Collingwood (7)

1.0 (6)

5.11 (41)

8.11 (59)

16.16 (112)

43

Lake Oval, South Melbourne

Fri (8:00pm)

11,300

St Kilda (6)

3.4 (22)

3.4 (22)

8.7 (55)

10.9 (69)

Sep-11

Hawthorn (9)

3.3 (21)

6.9 (45)

7.18 (60)

11.21 (87)

23

Lake Oval, South Melbourne

Tue (8:00pm)

13,560

Footscray (5)

5.5 (35)

5.6 (36)

8.9 (57)

9.10 (64)

SEMI FINALS

DATE

TEAMS

1/4

1/2

3/4

FINAL

MARGIN

VENUE

DAY/TIME

CROWD

Sep-14

Richmond (8)

2.2 (14)

6.6 (42)

8.7 (55)

12.13 (85)

23

Lake Oval, South Melbourne

Fri (8:00pm)

17,100

North Melbourne (11)

1.4 (10)

4.4 (28)

8.8 (56)

9.8 (62)

Sep-18

Hawthorn (9)

3.1 (19)

8.4 (52)

14.10 (94)

18.13 (121)

72

Lake Oval, South Melbourne

Tue (8:00pm)

20,100

Collingwood (7)

2.3 (15)

4.3 (27)

6.6 (42)

7.7 (49)

GRAND FINAL

DATE

TEAMS

1/4

1/2

3/4

FINAL

MARGIN

VENUE

DAY/TIME

CROWD

Sep-24

Richmond v
Hawthorn moved to Sept.26th due to torrential rain

Sep-26

Richmond (8)

1.6 (12)

3.10 (28)

5.14 (44)

8.16 (64)

4

Lake Oval, South Melbourne

Wed (8:00pm)

24,550

Hawthorn (9)

2.0 (12)

4.2 (26)

6.4 (40)

9.6 (60)

MATCH REPORTS

Listed below are match reports for all 7 games played during the series. This is the first time these reports have been collated and published online or in print. Unless otherwise noted the information was sourced from The Football Record and The Age newspaper.